Improvement in bale-ties



A. GRATZ. ,su i. F. JONES. Baile-Tie.A

No.v 220,021. Pa ed Sept. 30,1879.

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In van on UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDERSON GRATZ AND LORRAINE F. JONES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TI ES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 220,021, datedSeptember 30, 1879; application filed y August 20,1879.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANDERSON GRATZ and LORRAINE F. JONES, of St. Louis,Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bale-Ties forCotton and Similar Substances, which improvement is fully set forth inthe following specification and annexed drawings, in which- Figure l isa perspective, and Fig. 2 a face, view of our improved bale-tie, showingalso the ends of a band.

Our invention relates to that class of buckles for metallic bale-tieslong known as openslot buckles,7 in which, as is well known, the ends ofthe band, bent into loop form, are inserted sidewise into the interiorslot or mortise by means of a slit or opening in one of the sides orends of the buckle.

Various devices have been made and pat.

ented of buckles of this class in order to accomplish these primary andessential objectst. c., facilitating the insertion of the band into thebuckle when in place on the bale, and the holding it rmly and securelyin place during the subsequent handling of the bale.

The facility of insertion is manifestly greatly increased in having theslit or opening in the side of the buckle, (as in the drawings,) instead of in one of the ends, covered by the bands when in position; but,on the otherhand, buckles of this character, which may be calledside-slit open-slot buckles,7 have been open to serious objection, inthat the side slit being uncovered renders the band liable to slip outduring the subsequent handling of the bale..

Our invention consists of an improved form of side'slit openslotbuckles, combining, as we believe, in a simpler and more advantageousmanner than heretofore devised, the advantages with freedom from all theobjections heretofore urged against this class of buckles.

We effect this by causing one side of the interior mortise to be curved,and from this curved side an oblique slit or opening to eX- tend throughthe side of the buckle.

ln the annexed drawings, A, Figs. l and 2, is the buckle, made ofmalleable iron or other suitable material sufficiently strong for thepurpose, atin shape, or with stiffenin g ribs or corrugations, ifdesired, rectangular in form, or with the corners clipped, if desired.

The interior mortise or slot, B, is rectangular in form, except that oneside, a, is curved, as shown, the sides or ends b and b being left inlength suflicient for the width of the hooped ends of the band to beinserted and from the curved end c the oblique slit or opening C is madesufficiently large to admit of the sidewise insertion of the hooped endsofthe band. By means of thisoblique side slit and curved side the hoopedends are easily inserted into the inortise when the band is in positionon the bale, and are easily and securely held against the sides 'or endsb and b', all disarrangement and slipping and other annoyancesordinarily incident to this class of ties being prevented by the form ofthe inortise and slit.

Another advantage of this buckle is its facility of manufacture, as itcan be stamped entire with one operation of the die.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a side slit open-slot buckle for bale-ties, of thecurved side of the mortise with the oblique slit opening in such curvedside, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ANDERSON .GRATZ LORRAINE F. JONES.

Witnesses:

F. N. J UDsoN, J. S. WARREN.

